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2021-04-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Facebook: PA intelligence used platform to spy on journalists, political rivals
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[IsraelTimes] Social media giant disables accounts used by Paleostinian agents; also combats espionage operations linked to Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
| According to Facebook, the PA’s Preventive Security Service (PSS) targeted “journalists, people opposing the Fatah-led government, human rights activists and military groups,” primarily in the West Bank, Gaza and Syria, “and to a lesser extent Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya.” |
Facebook said Wednesday it had disabled accounts used by the Paleostinian Authority’s internal intelligence organization to spy on journalists, human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activists and political opponents.
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In a report, the US social media giant also said it had identified and disabled "politically motivated" espionage operations by a group believed to be based in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and affiliated with terror group Hamas, the rulers of the Paleostinian enclave.
The report released Wednesday comes ahead of landmark Paleostinian legislative elections set for next month that will see the rival West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority (PA) and Hamas facing off for the first time in 15 years.
According to Facebook, the PA’s Preventive Security Service (PSS) targeted "journalists, people opposing the Fatah-led government, human rights activists and military groups," primarily in the West Bank, Gaza and Syria, "and to a lesser extent The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, Iraq, Leb
 ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and Libya."
Operating from the West Bank, the operatives used "low-sophistication malware disguised as secure chat applications" to infiltrate Android devices and collect information from them, including "call logs, location, contacts and text messages," the report said.
The PSS also created a fake application to which journalists were invited to submit "human rights-related articles for publication," according to the Facebook cyber espionage and threat Sherlocks who penned the report.
In addition, the intelligence service used false accounts posing primarily as young women but also "as supporters of Hamas, Fatah, various military groups, journalists and activists" in order "to build trust with people they targeted and trick them into installing malicious software."
The report also noted what it called "state-sponsored cyber espionage operations" believed to be "politically motivated" by the so-called Arid Viper group.
Independent researchers say the group has been launching cyber attacks from Gaza towards Israel since 2013.
Arid Viper’s target this time, however, was not Israel, rather Paleostinians, including "individuals associated with pro-Fatah groups, Paleostinian government organizations, military and security personnel, and student groups within Paleostine," Facebook said.
Arid Viper used "over a hundred websites that either hosted iOS and Android malware, attempted to steal credentials through phishing or acted as command and control servers," the report said.
"They appear to operate across multiple internet services, using a combination of social engineering, phishing websites and continually evolving Windows and Android malware in targeted cyber espionage campaigns," it added.
Facebook said it had taken down the accounts affiliated with both the PSS and Arid Viper, "released malware hashes, blocked domains associated with their activity and alerted people" targeted.
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